The name of former Chief Minister and general secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC), Harish Rawat figures in the list of the star campaigners released by the Congress party for the upcoming Delhi Assembly
elections. A list of 40 star campaigners was released by the general secretary of the AICC, K C Venugopal on Wednesday. Rawat incidentally is the lone politician from Uttarakhand who was selected as star campaigner by the party.
Senior leader Raj Babbar who is the Rajya Sabha MP from the state is also in the list. Other star campaigners in the list are Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Priyanka Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad, P C Chako, Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath and Shashi Tharoor.
The voting for Delhi assembly would be held on February 8. According to a rough estimate there 25 lakh voters of Uttarakhand origin in Delhi.
